Would John McCain start a war to win an election?

Written by: Cliff Cleland on Aug 27, 2008 7:26 PM EDT

   Would John McCain start a war to win an election? Maybe.

   Is it a coincidence or do these facts add up to just that?

   Randy Scheunemann is McCain’s chief foreign policy advisor and until recently, lobbyist for Republic of Georgia working for his close friend, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. In the last four years in that capacity he earned $800,000 and met 49 times with McCain’s staff. Scheunemann took a leave of absence on April 17, 2008 from that job to take over his full time role with the McCain campaign.

   Scheunemann is well know as a neoconservative who served as Director of the Project for the New American Century, a really scary group. While working on the 2000 McCain he headed the Committee for Liberation of Iraq and championed the invasion of  Iraq.

  Last month Karl Rove, Republican campaign strategist but not foreign policy advisor, attended a strategy meeting in Crimea, Ukraine  along with the Georgian President, Saakashvili.

    Two Georgian districts, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, have enjoyed defacto autonomy since the 1990’s and only Russia recognized their self-declared independence. Georgian military forces recently launched a military offensive to re-take control of these districts which was followed by a quick Russian military response in which the Georgian forces were thoroughly routed with Russian forces occupying much of Georgia.

    McCain, who has been demonizing Russia and Putin, used the opportunity to release a bellicose and ultimatum-like response to Russia. Then he called Obama’s response weak. Obama’s response was very much like the one coming from the White House. Later on the White House fell in line and picked up the language of McCain.

   Are we to believe that the President of Georgia ordered an invasion of a territory sure to produce an overwhelming counter reaction from Russia without assurance from influential Americans, like Scheunemann, that the U.S and NATO would rescue them. Georgia may never recover from this blunder.

     This raises certain questions. Are we to believe this confluence of  these people and events was just a coincidence?   I don’t.

  Are the neocons and McCain capable of such treachery? Would Karl Rove get involved in this kind of mischief? Would the right wing and McCain throw the Republic of Georgia under the bus and risk reentry into the cold war to gain political advantage for McCain? Probably.

Source: www.truthdig.com

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